I didn’t lie. I have a sermon up by Thursday. I investigated a few other wiki sites, and am sticking with deki wiki. At least this way you don’t have to sign give you email addresss, and I created a special public username and password.

Much of contemporary thinking of preaching has moved from thinking of preaching as a hierarchical speak-at model, to a conversational speak-with model. The use of wiki technology broadens that conversation even before the sermon event.

Certainly, wiki sermons bring up many important theological questions. For instance, if a sermon – as I believe – is given and written for a particular congregation in a particular time and place, wiki users will not necessarily have a solid understanding of the context. But…other perspectives are important, and may bring in new appropriate ideas that the preacher would not have seen otherwise. (I’ll stop there, but there’s plenty more thelogial questions.)

To access the sermon follow these simple instructions:

• go to my wiki site and read the sermon.
• login by typing Jesus as the username, and theway as the password
• comment at bottom, or click edit up top to edit till your heart’s content (don’t forget to click save from the editing icons when you’re done.

Hopefully this Thursday post will give more people time to access the sermon, and participate in a fun experiment. (Obviously, I reserve the right to change whatever I feel called to change):) And I can always tell St. Columba folks that Jesus edited the sermon!

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